mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>
> > Lt. Calley of the My Lai Massacre was a "jerk" who deserved "court martial" for
> > "disgracing [your] country", as opposed to committing mass murder, a war crime or
> > an atrocity. The other of the 150 men who were either not court martialed or not
> > found guilty.
>
> That's fairly common in such trials. The CO is charged and convicted in
> such things, and the troops are let go. Happened fairly often in the
> European trials and in the Asian trials.

Same happened to many Japanese soldiers. Most probably concealed their pasts entirely.
Not the point.

But how do people, particularly in foreign countries THINK of those soldiers and their
country?

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